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focuser

noun

focuser is a noun meaning “A device which allows one to adjust the focus of an instrument such as a telescope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-C-U-S-E-R, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of focuser is focusers.

What does focuser mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A device which allows one to adjust the focus of an instrument such as a telescope.

    I decided to upgrade my telescope with a feather-touch focuser.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of focuser

  • focusers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is focuser?

Focuser appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does focuser come from?

From focus + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).